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LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE [JUNE 3
a partie, the cuntrie rose, and he is resceud from the soldiers.
4 off them ar hurt, and on cuntrieman Idled.1 Yr brother2
gives you a particular acompt off that afair, and I have wreten
fully off' it to my lo. duke. If from thes emergents we tak
not ocasion to aquent the King, it will never be done. I have
wreten to E. Atholl and to A-B. Glasgow, beseetching them
both to cum hier against nixt wick. Few ar hier yet, and dis¬
orders ar not upon the losing hand : god send uss good news.
I most tel you mightie stories ar talked hier off E. Kincardens3
courtship, aspetialie mongst the outed advocats4 hier, and
mightie maters they promise to themselves he will doe for
them. I shall intret for yr prayers. In full assurance y* I am
unalterablie, May it please yr Grace, yr most fathfull humble
servant.
[Addressed] For The Artchbishop off St. Andrews His
Grace.
XXXIII
CHARLES MAITLAND, LORD HATTON, TO SHARP
Hoi.yroodhous, \2junii [1675].
May it please yr Grace,—I doubt not my lord hes told
you of what cam to him by the last post from the frends hier.5
It is a serious mater. We will all step over his modestie in
his owne conserne, hot it is evedent to be a common conserne
1 Chaplain to Lord Cardross. He was executed (for being with the rebels
armed with two pistols), 14 August 1679, at the Market Cross, Edinburgh.
2 Sir William Sharp, of Stonyhill.
3 Courtship, i.e. his dealings with the king at Court. Kincardine was in
London for several months of 1674, and also went up in 1675. A letter of
Paterson’s, Edinburgh, July 6, 1675 (in the ‘Episcopal Chest’), speaks of ‘the
braggs ’ of some in Edinburgh, who claimed that Kincardine was influential with
the Duke of York.
4 A lucid account of the struggle between the bench and bar, ending in
the ‘ debarring ’ of some fifty advocates, including several of the most eminent,
such as Sir George Mackenzie, Sir George Lockhart, Sir Robert Sinclair,
and Sir John Cunninghame, will be found in Mackay’s Memoir of Sir James
Dalrymple, First Viscount Stair (pp. 114-117)- On June 25th most of the
advocates submitted.
5 Sharp was in London up to August in this year.
LAUDERDALE CORRESPONDENCE [JUNE 3
a partie, the cuntrie rose, and he is resceud from the soldiers.
4 off them ar hurt, and on cuntrieman Idled.1 Yr brother2
gives you a particular acompt off that afair, and I have wreten
fully off' it to my lo. duke. If from thes emergents we tak
not ocasion to aquent the King, it will never be done. I have
wreten to E. Atholl and to A-B. Glasgow, beseetching them
both to cum hier against nixt wick. Few ar hier yet, and dis¬
orders ar not upon the losing hand : god send uss good news.
I most tel you mightie stories ar talked hier off E. Kincardens3
courtship, aspetialie mongst the outed advocats4 hier, and
mightie maters they promise to themselves he will doe for
them. I shall intret for yr prayers. In full assurance y* I am
unalterablie, May it please yr Grace, yr most fathfull humble
servant.
[Addressed] For The Artchbishop off St. Andrews His
Grace.
XXXIII
CHARLES MAITLAND, LORD HATTON, TO SHARP
Hoi.yroodhous, \2junii [1675].
May it please yr Grace,—I doubt not my lord hes told
you of what cam to him by the last post from the frends hier.5
It is a serious mater. We will all step over his modestie in
his owne conserne, hot it is evedent to be a common conserne
1 Chaplain to Lord Cardross. He was executed (for being with the rebels
armed with two pistols), 14 August 1679, at the Market Cross, Edinburgh.
2 Sir William Sharp, of Stonyhill.
3 Courtship, i.e. his dealings with the king at Court. Kincardine was in
London for several months of 1674, and also went up in 1675. A letter of
Paterson’s, Edinburgh, July 6, 1675 (in the ‘Episcopal Chest’), speaks of ‘the
braggs ’ of some in Edinburgh, who claimed that Kincardine was influential with
the Duke of York.
4 A lucid account of the struggle between the bench and bar, ending in
the ‘ debarring ’ of some fifty advocates, including several of the most eminent,
such as Sir George Mackenzie, Sir George Lockhart, Sir Robert Sinclair,
and Sir John Cunninghame, will be found in Mackay’s Memoir of Sir James
Dalrymple, First Viscount Stair (pp. 114-117)- On June 25th most of the
advocates submitted.
5 Sharp was in London up to August in this year.
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| Description | Contents:The library of James VI. In the hand of Peter Young, his tutor, 1573-1583 / G.F. Warner -- Documents illustrating Catholic policy in the reign of James VI., 1596-1598 / Thomas Graves Law -- Twenty-four letters of Sir Thomas Hope, ... 1627-1646 / Robert Paul -- Civil war papers, 1643-1650 / H.F. Morland Simpson -- Thirty-four letters written to James Sharp, ... 1660-1677 / John Dowden -- The diary of George Turnbull, minister of Alloa and Tyninghame, 1657-1704 / Robert Paul -- The Masterton papers, 1660-1719 / V.A. Noël Paton -- Accompt of expenses in Edinburgh by Alexander Rose of Kilravock, 1715 / A.H. Millar -- Papers about the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745 / Henry Paton -- General index -- Index to the library of James VI. |
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